Sun Constellation System
{{Short description|Computing system}}
Sun Constellation System is an open petascale computing environment introduced by Sun Microsystems in 2007.
Main hardware components
- Sun Blade 6048 Modular System
- [http://www.sun.com/x6275 Sun Blade X6275]
- [http://www.sun.com/x6270 Sun Blade X6270]
- [http://www.sun.com/blades Sun Blade 6000 System]
- [http://www.sun.com/products/networking/infiniband.jsp Sun Datacenter Switch 3456]
- [http://www.sun.com/X4540 Sun Fire X4540]
- [http://www.sun.com/servers/cooling Sun Cooling Doors (5200,5600)]
Software stack
- OpenSolaris or Linux
- Sun Grid Engine
- Sun Studio Compiler Suite
- Fortress (programming language)
- Sun HPC ClusterTools (based on Open MPI)
- Sun Ops Center
Services
- [http://www.sun.com/service/dcexpress/ Sun Datacenter Express Services ]
Production systems
Ranger at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) was the largest production Constellation system. Ranger had 62,976 processor cores in 3,936 nodes and a peak performance of 580 TFlops.{{cite web
|url = http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/resources/hpcsystems/#ranger
|title = TACC > HPC Systems
|accessdate = 2007-12-13
|publisher = The University of Texas at Austin
|url-status = dead
|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20090801102108/http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/resources/hpcsystems/#ranger
|archivedate = 2009-08-01
| url = https://blogs.oracle.com/marchamilton/entry/more_ranger_facts_and_figures
| title = More Ranger Facts and Figures
| accessdate = 2016-06-18
| publisher = Sun Microsystems
}} Ranger was the 7th most powerful TOP500 supercomputer in the world at the time of its introduction.{{cite web
|url=http://top500.org/lists/2008/11
|title=TOP500 List - November 2008
|date=2010-08-11
|publisher=TOP500.Org}}
After 5 years of service at TACC, it was dismantled and shipped to South Africa, Tanzania, and Botswana to help foster HPC development in Africa.{{cite web
|url=https://www.tacc.utexas.edu/-/ranger-supercomputer-begins-new-life
|title=Ranger Supercomputer Begins New Life
|publisher=The University of Texas at Austin
|date=2014-07-14
|accessdate=2016-05-04
|first=Jorge
|last=Salazar
}}
A number of smaller Constellation systems are deployed at other supercomputer centers, including the University of Oslo.{{cite web
| url = https://blogs.oracle.com/simons/entry/hpc_consortium_university_of_oslo
| title = HPC Consortium: University of Oslo
| date = 2008-06-17
| accessdate = 2016-06-18
| publisher = Sun Microsystems
}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.sun.com/servers/hpc/sunconstellationsystem/ Sun Constellation System at Sun.com]
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyaPIxmXWPs Sun Constellation System at SC07 (YouTube Video)]
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